Eight-character calendar basis

The calendar approved by the eight characters is a dry calendar (also known as solar calendar and Jiazi calendar) and also a kind of astronomical time. Its time points are divided according to the 24 solar terms. For example, beginning of spring is still the year before and beginning of spring is the new year. The dry calendar and the branch calendar are not directly related to the lunar calendar and the solar calendar. Because the lunar calendar in China is a kind of lunar calendar. The lunar calendar is usually the first and fifteenth day, which is based on the moon. The first month is full moon, the fifteenth moon is full and the moon is cloudy, so it is the lunar calendar. Twenty-four solar terms, namely beginning of spring, beginning of winter, winter solstice, first frost, etc. It is a calendar element based on the sun. For example, the solstice in winter is very cold and the spring is very warm, all of which depend on the sun. Because the sun is yang, it is called solar calendar. The lunar calendar has 24 solar terms and solar calendar elements. As for the Gregorian calendar, it is a western calendar, a foreign calendar and a national calendar. For example, 65438+1 October 1 New Year's Day, 65438+1October/National Day, etc. The Gregorian calendar belongs to the Gregorian calendar, which is also based on the sun, just like the dry calendar in China. These two calendars are relatively stable on the dates of each year. For example, February 4th is always the beginning of spring. Remember that it is more convenient to convert the Gregorian calendar into a dry calendar. Therefore, the horoscope is based on the solar calendar and the sun, not the moon, so it cannot be based on the lunar calendar, that is, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Maybe some people still don't understand that the lunar calendar is astronomical time if it is accompanied by branches, and the monthly method is the time of branches of the lunar calendar. Time has proved that this method can make a complete model of four-column prediction together with the sun's law.

Especially the determination of fortune-telling month: many people determine the month of birth according to the date of the lunar calendar. In fact, it stipulates that every two designated solar terms are one month: silver moon is between beginning of spring and Jing Ke, Uzuki is between Jing Ke and Qingming, and so on. Twenty-four solar terms are actually composed of twelve sections and twelve gases, which together are called twenty-four solar terms. And are alternately arranged in one section and one breath. For example, beginning of spring is a festival, and rain is gas; Sting is a festival, and spring is divided into qi; Qingming is the festival, Grain Rain is the spirit, and so on. Then a day between two festivals is a month. For example, February, that is, Uzuki, is between Awakening and Tomb-Sweeping Day. If the lunar calendar 20 14 has the fourth day of February, it happens to be the day before the shock; So although it's February in the lunar calendar, it can't be counted as February, but as January in the lunar calendar, which is silver moon. Please keep this in mind.

China has used heavenly stems and earthly branches to accurately record years, months, days and hours since ancient times. It consists of eight branches (* * *). The combination of year, month, day and hour is called "column", which forms "year column", "moon column", "sun column" and "time column", so the eight characters are also called "four columns" or "four columns and eight characters".

To learn eight characters, you must be familiar with the dry calendar. First of all, beginning of spring is the beginning of the New Year every year, and the beginning of spring shock begins in silver moon (just like the first month of the lunar calendar), with the "Festival" as the beginning of the month and the last moment of "Qi" as the end of the month; Then calculate the heavenly stems and earthly branches of month, day and hour in turn.

Because the horoscope only reflects the relative angular position of the earth and the sun, the conversion of the horoscope formula of time needs to refer to many factors, including average solar time, sidereal time, average solar time difference, time zone and daylight saving time. This conversion algorithm is more accurate, but it is also complicated, mostly with the help of computer-aided calculation, usually with a perpetual calendar, and the formula is simple.

According to Yin and Yang, there is no accident in this world, only necessity. No matter how small the encounter is, it will definitely affect the fate in the future, and the conclusion of fate will not disappear. The world looks big, but it's actually small, limited to what you can see and touch.